Sentences with phrase «carthaginian child sacrifice»

Child sacrifice may have been a last resort in the hopes that the gesture would improve the weather by appeasing the gods.

The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity By Jon D. Levenson Yale University Press.

Jeremiah even rails against child sacrifices to other gods by the Jews as a reason for the Babylonian Captivity.

How is it moral to look to a child sacrifice as redemption of the sins of people not even yet born?

Someone could say that God commanded Abraham to sacrifice His son, and thus taught child sacrifice.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

(Leviticus 19:2; cf. 20:26; 21:18) Along with moral commands against such evils as child sacrifice, adultery, and sexual perversion are detailed injunctions concerning ceremonial observances, reminiscent of the old taboos.

Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and the author of Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence (Princeton University Press) and The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity (Yale University Press).

Jews read this passage on Rosh Hashanah, Muslims on Eid Al Ahda — and some in both communities wonder whether it isn't time to become more modern and avoid this discussion of child sacrifice.

Leviticus 18:21 «And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through [the][fire] to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I [am] the Lord (child sacrifice to false gods).

Yeah, the Old Testament just supports child sacrifice and divine retaliation for not being a faithful follower.

The Morozov cult was not quite as horrifying as the worship of Moloch, the dreadful Carthaginian deity who required fiery child sacrifice.

He dreams that he officiates at some barbarous rite of child sacrifice in the time of Homer.

When there was a child sacrifice it was an aberration.

However, Sinkinson insists that there is no conflict in affirming a historical basis for the story while appreciating its message of progressive revelation — that Yahweh was not the kind of God who required child sacrifice.

Patterson goes so far as to compare women who choose not to have children to the people who practiced child sacrifice in the Bible!

The priest of Delhi, Kali Bari, says that a child sacrificed to Kali ensures a man the birth of a son.

These detestable practices the other nations partook of (and child sacrifice was only one), Israel was influenced by, and at times, Israel unfortunately did similar things.

No Abraham nor any of the other patriarchs practiced child sacrifice as you said.

Child sacrifice wasn't an isolated event.

Declaring war / judgment on a people group because of the things already discussed (child sacrifice, etc.) warning them, asking them to repent, having the message / messenger being confirmed by overt supernatural signs, being patient and waiting years, sometimes over a hundred years for people groups to repent...... that's one thing.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

Incest, bestiality, orgiastic religious prostitution, child sacrifice, horrific torture, blood rituals, gang rape, cannibalism, and countless other dreadful activities were common occurrences.

The notion that man must surrender his dearest possession on earth to his deity — the supreme instance is that of child sacrifice — is so fundamental that it can not be dismissed as mythology.

The problem is, the translators have achieved this lucidity by changing the very text of scripture, by conflating the verse with the previous one (Leviticus 18:21) which is a condemnation of the practice of child sacrifice in the temple of Molech.

In extreme straits, Ahaz reverts to the crude rite, persistently condemned in prophetic Yahwism, of child sacrifice, and offers up his own son as a burnt offering (I Kings 16:3).

I have always believed the Roman stories of Carthaginian child sacrifice, but many scholars dismissed these stories as mere propaganda.

Cult prostitution, scattered idolatrous sanctuaries, the practice of child sacrifice, and all objects and manifestations of astral worship (ancient Babylonian in origin, taken over by Assyria) are abolished.

As the King's account also reports of his grandfather Ahaz (in II 16:3), Manasseh reverted to child sacrifice (II 21:6); and, also like Ahaz, he introduced, no doubt under the guise of what continued to pass for Yahweh worship and the Yahweh cult, extraneous practices denoting Judah's subservience to Assyria.

For instance, brain tissue has been found in the perfectly preserved body of an Inca child sacrificed 500 years ago.

The Aconcagua boy died as part of an Incan ritual of child sacrifice called capacocha.

Grim discoveries there are shedding light on a long tradition of child sacrifices.

This is not the first evidence of child sacrifice in the ancient past.

Without child sacrifice, how can we maintain sufficient negotiating leverage with the Dark Prince of Sin so as to ensure that our dreams of sending Judge [REDACTED] to the very depths of hell come true?

In addition, we will need extra children so that we can maintain current production levels while having enough surplus to continue our program of child sacrifice.

Because the ideal rivers for cave tubing are located deep in the jungle, many participants enjoy combining cave tubing with other complementary activities including zip lining through the canopy or spelunking one of the many sacred caves in the country, including ATM (Actun Tunichil Muknal) Cave that still hosts the complete skeletons of young children sacrificed to Maya gods more than 1,000 years ago.

Closely examine your citizenry to find the best strategy for your people and beliefs, knowing that nobody wants their child sacrificed, even for the greater good.

The largest ever child sacrifice may have been to appease the gods over an El Nino driven climate disaster

This results in the child sacrificing, at least temporarily, the relationship with one parent, in order to «prove loyalty» to the other.

Not exact matches

Other South American civilizations, like the Incas and the Aztec, practiced ritual human sacrifice, but archaeologists have never found children's bodies in such a high concentration before.

You could accomplish a lot of what it does simply by setting up automatic transfers to a savings account (yours or your child's) on your own — and you wouldn't have to sacrifice the ability to withdraw your cash easily on a moment's notice.

Some Canadian families are able to raise their children without paid childcare either because parents sacrifice their earnings in the workforce, or because they can cobble together unpaid childcare from benevolent family and friends.

What it's about: Indiana Jones stumbles upon an Indian village desperate to rescue their children from a nearby cult that sacrifices them in an ancient catacomb.

Parents make extraordinary sacrifices for their children.

Some of the students come from very rich families, but many are from families that make immense sacrifices to send their children to study in American universities where they tend to major in STEM or business degrees, he said.

The problem of sacrificing one's children is a knotty one.

A narrative by campaign organizer Mandy Goodman read: «A kind, caring hero sacrificed his life to save the lives of children.

«The most important and fulfilling thing in my day to day life is taking care of my five children, who are ages 3 - 13 but on the business side, it's knowing CSSCS has so quickly made a difference in people's lives that makes the sacrifices I have made all worthwhile.

This noble goal unfortunately has many sacrificing their own retirement nest egg to help secure their children's future.

Sacrificing the children to preserve the «good» name of the church is flat - out evil.